Pelléas et Mélisande review – raptly beautiful, classy production

Theatre Royal, GlasgowThe cool, subdued interiors of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi inspire David McVicar’s fine staging of Debussy’s bleak symbolist opera Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is the quintessential symbolist opera, sharing its aesthetic with painters such as Odilon Redon and Gustave Moreau. But for David McVicar’s raptly beautiful new production for Scottish Opera it’s another artist contemporary with Debussy who provides the visua